The curate was speaking aft inaugurating the State Camp of Little KITEs astatine the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) field here. (Image: AI generated)
After imparting grooming to schoolhouse teachers astir the usage and the inclusion of the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence successful the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) textbooks, the Kerala authorities is present readying to make a state-owned AI motor for schools.
State General Education Minister V Sivankutty connected Saturday announced that an AI motor volition beryllium developed this year, nether the enactment of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), wrong the world framework, an authoritative connection said.
The curate was speaking aft inaugurating the State Camp of Little KITEs astatine the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) field here.
The curate besides announced that KITE, the exertion limb of the authorities General Education Department, had completed the organisation of 29,000 robotic kits successful schools.
The Open Hardware Robotic Kits, which are deployed to schools by the KITE, comprise of Arduino Uno Rev3, LEDs, SG90 Mini Servo Motor, LDR Light Sensor Module, IR Sensor Module, Active Buzzer Module, Push Button, Bread Board, Jumper wires and Resistors.
Sivankutty besides highlighted that alternatively of isolated occurrence stories, much companies should follow the illustration of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL), Qburst Technologies and Canara Bank, who person contributed from their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds to marque robotic acquisition accessible to each schoolhouse children successful Kerala.
The curate stated that captious facts specified arsenic issues arising from excessive usage of integer devices by children and combating fake quality person been included successful the ICT textbooks successful the schoolhouse syllabus and it should beryllium addressed much effectively.
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The connection said Kadakampally Surendran, MLA, Anvar Sadath, CEO of KITE, and Sunil T T, Director of ICFOSS, besides spoke during the inaugural session.
The two-day lawsuit besides features interactive sessions with Prahlad Vadakkepat from the University of Singapore, Achuthsankar S Nair from the Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics astatine the University of Kerala, and different experts.
Last year, Kerala provided hands-on AI grooming for thousands of teachers successful state-run schools, which was a first-of-its-kind inaugural successful the country. Officials said it was envisaged to supply them with the indispensable AI expertise.
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